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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
17 March [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.30
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Harrison, Frederic
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
1 March 1875
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1893
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
3 March [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1644
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 Mar – 14 Apr 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 149
Summary:
Gives Carl Claus’s identifications of the organisms sent by CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Keylock Rusden
Date:
[before 27 Mar 1875]
Source of text:
Ovens and Murray Advertiser , 27 March 1875, p. 5
Summary:
Thanks for copy of lecture (Rusden 1874: Selection, natural and artificial, a lecture delivered in the Wangaratta Athenaeum by Mr. H. K. Rusden on Monday, October 26th, 1874) and essay (Rusden 1872: The treatment of criminals in relation to science, an essay read before the Royal Society of Victoria).
Comments on the essay.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Oswald Heer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 130
Summary:
Comments on his Flora fossilis Arctica [vol. 3 (1875)]. Discusses successive appearance of plant families in geological periods. Relates plant development to rise of herbivorous mammals.
Comments on death of Charles Lyell.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 303
Summary:
Thanks for presentation copy of Descent, 2d ed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Moritz Traube
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 178: 176
Summary:
Sends two treatises which explain cell-wall formation and some aspects of cell growth in physico-chemical terms ["Experimente zur Theorie d. Zellenbildung und Endosmose", Arch. Anat. Physiol. (1867): 87–128, 126–65].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Moritz Traube
Date:
5 Mar 1875
Source of text:
Library of Congress Manuscript Division (Francis Storr Correspondence (Mss2304))
Summary:
Thanks correspondent for two essays.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
7 Mar 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.464)
Summary:
Thanks correspondent for article on CD in Gardeners’ Chronicle.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Oswald Heer
Date:
8 Mar [1875]
Source of text:
Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Nachlass Oswald Heer 213.2)
Summary:
Thanks OH for his book [see 9876]; agrees that the sudden appearance of many dicotyledons in the Upper Chalk is a perplexing phenomenon for the evolutionist.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Gould Anne Ruxton; Gould Anne Wolfe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 181: 135
Summary:
CD’s Descent.
Fighting among beetles.
Similarity between dogs and men; intelligence of dogs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
10 Mar 1875
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 5)
Summary:
No uniform edition of CD’s works has appeared in England.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Paulus Peronius Cato Hoek
Date:
11 Mar 1875
Source of text:
Artis Library (P. P. C. Hoek Archive: Darwin correspondence)
Summary:
Thanks for publication [Berste bijdrage tot een nauwkeuriger kennis der sessile cirripedien (1875)]. Cannot read Dutch. Mentions PPCH’s research on cirripedes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred William Bennett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 160: 143
Summary:
Has found the relation of pollen-grain size to style size in Primula to be the opposite of CD’s view; asks whether there is an error or just remarkable variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 2
Summary:
Purpose of bushy tails; their usefulness to their owners as a means of keeping warm.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
[13–15 Mar 1875]
Source of text:
Birmingham Daily Post , 8 April 1875, p. 6
Summary:
Thinks CD is right about the retention of a tail.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Chauncey Wright
Date:
13 Mar 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Discusses function of the eyebrows in protecting the eyes from sweat.
Mentions notices in the Nation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 130
Summary:
Is glad CD is pleased with his book [Cave hunting (1874)].
Relationship between language and race. The Basques.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Fiske
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1875
Source of text:
DAR 164: 126
Summary:
Thanks CD for Descent
and for his praise of Cosmic philosophy [1874].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Date
Document type
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- American Philosophical Society2
- Artis Library1
- Bibliotek der Rijksuniversiteit Leiden1
- Cambridge University Library27
- Christie’s (dealers)1
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek1
- Huntington Library1
- John Wilson Manuscripts Limited (dealer), Painswick Lawn, 7 Painswick Road1
- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress1
- Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney1
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond4
- Smithsonian Libraries1
- The British Library1
- Zentralbibliothek Zürich1
- FEWER